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mullet

/ˈmʌlɪt/noun

mullet is spelled M-U-L-L-E-T: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, mullet means “A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of mullet is mullets.

How many letters and syllables are in mullet?

Letters6: M-U-L-L-E-T
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 30,017th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is mullet?

Mullet appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,017th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce mullet?

  • /ˈmʌlɪt/
  • /ˈmʌlət/

Mullet has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-mullet.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of mullet

  • mullets plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does mullet mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A fish of the family Mullidae (order Syngnathiformes).

  2. 2

    Those of the genus Mullus within that family.

  3. 3

    USA fish of the family Mugilidae (order Mugiliformes).

  4. 4

    USAny of several species of freshwater fish in the sucker family.

  5. 5

    USThose in the genus Moxostoma.

  6. 6

    A fool.

  7. 7

    A men's hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

  8. 8

    slangA person who mindlessly follows a fad, a trend, or a leader.

  9. 9

    A star with straight edges and usually with five or six points.

  10. 10

    A rowel of a spur.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Mullet in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchmulet, muge (fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)), rouget (fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)), nuque longue, coupe Longueuil, mullet (hairstyle)
GermanMeeräsche (fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)), Vokuhila (hairstyle)
Portuguesetainha (fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)), salmonete, trilha (fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)), mullet (hairstyle)
Spanishmújol, lisa (fish of the family Mugilidae (grey mullets)), salmonete (fish of the family Mullidae (red mullets)), chocopanda, farru, playero (hairstyle)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does mullet come from?

From Middle English molet, mulett, from Old French mulet (now ‘grey mullet’), from Latin mullus (“red mullet”), from Ancient Greek μύλλος (múllos).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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